Example sentences of "and [pers pn] stood there [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently he had n't heard the door and I stood there until slowly , still reading , he set his head in my direction and smiled . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , he just did , ’ Mitch muttered , ‘ and I stood there like an idiot , my mouth open and my camera not four yards behind me . ’ |
| 3 | The wood in the barn was soaked and we stood there in our dripping combat jackets close to despair ; we had been made to wear our helmets for the duration , and the oversized tin hats kept slipping over our faces , as we scrambled in the mud taking the wood to where the petulant staff were demanding hot coffee . |
| 4 | Helen , with the baby only two weeks away , was very large indeed , but not too large for me to get my arms around her , and we stood there in the middle of the flagged floor clasped together for a long time with neither of us saying much . |
| 5 | He put out his arms and caught her and held her , and they stood there on the gravel path in the grounds of Hilderbridge General Hospital , embraced as if they had long been lovers and had known each other with profound emotion and physical joy and had been parted only to meet again now , by chance , so felicitously . |
| 6 | And her uncle with me beside you and whole wedding and the minister was saying , sit down and do n't he he brought her up the aisle , I do n't know whether her father 's coming back or something , and he says no I 'm not sitting like , he says no I 'm not moving back and he stood there for the whole wedding like , back . |
| 7 | Ran across and he stood there like this , grin all over his face , ’ Harness that old Prince then ! ’ . |